Weekend accident becomes a fatality

A tractor-trailer crash that occurred on Highway 54 in Fulton Friday has now become a fatal accident after the driver of one of the vehicles involved died of his injuries Monday afternoon.

Jerry W. Baker, 69, of Dixon, had suffered serious injuries in the wreck, and was transported to University Hospital in Columbia after he drove his truck into a tractor-trailer traveling eastbound on US 54 near County Road 110 Friday morning.